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A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.

An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

A salt of malamic acid.

ic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders. [Written also mallenders.]

A malapert person. Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority Dryden. -- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.

A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

nfected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

hich see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small s…

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

A salt of malic acid.

To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance. [R.]